Zion Lacroix

Zion Lacroix is a Turkish film director and audiovisual storyteller based in Milan, born in Istanbul, 1992 as Doğa Vurgun. After his acquaintance with the underground culture, he shaped his stories around absurdism, skepticism, voyeurism and the intersections of pornography and (initially) childhood traumas. Encountering Dominique Appia’s painting “Entre les Trous de la Mémoire” in his preschool period, he could not get away from the implications of the painting for years. Zion started making films to see how people, including himself, escape and recreate themselves in their own reality. In his projects, which he devised by distorting the pop aesthetics of the 2000s, he deals with self-escape, dulness, self-denial and marginalization of society.